Applegate River, Middle Fork

We paddled this run 4 times over 2 day at about 500 on the dreamflows estimate, and 750-800 on the Applegate inflow gauge during spring snowmelt. 4/21-4/22

https://www.nwrfc.noaa.gov/river/station/flowplot/flowplot.cgi?lid=APLO3

This was an excellent first time flow, and the run exceeded my expectations by quite a bit. Lots of good, friendly class III whitewater with pleny of variety, and rather pretty for a roadside run. The run was portage free (we put in below the undercut rapid), but a couple of the class II gravel bars had wood that needed to be avoided, usually by going through shallow water to the left of the trees. We found the wood to be obvious and not in any notable rapids.